F1RST (Colossians)

Week 2 - Jesus Is Lord of Everything

Colossians 1:15-23

Jesus is supreme in every way:
1) He is supreme because

. (v. 15)

John 1:1, 14
The Son is the image of the invisible God… (v. 15)
Hebrews 1:3, John 14:9

2) He is supreme over all of

. (vv. 15-17)
For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible… all things have been created through him and for him. (v. 16)

Romans 11:36, Psalms 89:27
He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. (v. 17)

Hebrews 1:3

3) He is supreme in the

. (vv. 18-20)
And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. (v. 18)
John 14:19

4) He is supreme in

. (vv. 21-23)
Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation. (vv. 21-22)

“…to reconcile to himself all things…by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.” (v.20)

Jesus is the

, and he is all that we

Reveal Answer

.
John 14:6
…do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. (v. 23)